Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - Weekly Python News and Links (Jun 8)

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QOTW: "With so many languages being written these days, someone
[is] bound to name [his] language 'Right' simply because all the
other words are taken." -- Tor Iver Wilhelmsen

QOTW: "Why did no one invent Python before?" -- Jonathon
McKitrick

If you are new to Python and would rather write a few more
statements than bite the bullet and build your own class, then
relax, Robert Brewer shows how to create a dictionary with a
default value for missing keys - Chris demanded "Perlish behaviour"
- in no more than three lines.

Axel Scheepers has converted a Perl script to Python and now
wants a speed boost. The more concrete proposals show the tendency
to make the code both shorter and more elegant. Let's hope it will
be fast enough, too.

Atul Varma has written a minimal C compiler in Python - the news
is brought to our attention by Tim Freeman. The extension of the
tool chain fosters plans of world domination in an otherwise humble
community. Read the full thread here

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